Planned Parenthood’s Mammogram Deception Continues
By Jennie Stone, Published February 17th, 2012
Mammogram Machine
It has long been established that not a single Planned Parenthood in the nation offers mammograms in their clinics. However, speculation has arisen as to whether Planned Parenthood of Waco, Texas is a mammogram-providing Planned Parenthood, because when you Google “Planned Parenthood mammograms,” the first link that appears is one for the affiliate of central Texas, which strongly implies its Waco clinic is a mammogram provider:
The newsletter that the Waco Planned Parenthood published in the summer of 2010 flat-out stated that “in 2009, [they] provided 487 mammograms” and that “[they] have provided 2,683 mammograms to low-income women” since 2001:
Planned Parenthood of Central Texas, which runs and operates Planned Parenthood of Waco, explicitly states that their Affiliate provides mammography.
However, the official website for the Waco center itself does not list mammograms as a service they provide.
See why this is confusing people? Planned Parenthood outright claims they provide mammograms in their Waco facility… but it is well-established that no Planned Parenthood provides them.
A quick phone call cleared it all up. The verdict? Planned Parenthood of Waco, just like every other Planned Parenthood in the nation, only offers referrals for mammogram services. Once again, Planned Parenthood is blatantly lying about this service.
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Belief in abortion rights does not equal knowledge about abortion. This was made clear when the group Feminists for Choice asked women, “Can you be pro-choice if you wouldn’t choose abortion for yourself?” Most women answered the question with the same pro-abortion, deceptive language that has been fired off by abortion proponents for years. And it proves they don’t know anything about fetal development or abortion.
It’s My Body
Aurelia says, “I am pro-choice for the most basic reason. I don’t want anyone to tell me what to do with my body and I don’t think I have any business telling anyone what else to do with their body.”
Van claims, “It seems intuitive and obvious to me that I should be the ultimate decision maker of a decision that has to do with my physical body. On top of that, the fact that the majority of government is men makes it even more insulting.”
What these two fail to understand is that the baby/fetus is a completely different person from the mother. She has her own body developing with her own unique DNA within the womb of her mother. This is scientific fact. To be peddling the old line that abortion is something a women does to her own body is ignorant and disingenuous. Besides that, the government tells us we can’t use drugs or prostitute ourselves – actions that actually only affect our own body (unless of course the person is pregnant).
A Fetus isn’t Life, Just Potential Life
Sophia wrote that, “When I realized I was pregnant I realized this wasn’t an abstract moral decision any more. I had a potential baby growing in my body. I don’t think an abortion is killing a baby, but it is causing a potential baby to not exist. If I hadn’t done anything, then odds are I would have given birth to a healthy baby – my child – eight months later.”
This is one of the most bizarre, inaccurate arguments for abortion. How is a growing, developing human inside the woman only a potential baby? Ultrasounds allow us to see inside the womb and what we see is in fact a baby. If she is only a potential baby, than is an infant not a person but a potential toddler, and a teen only a potential adult? This potential life has a heartbeat and a face, the ability to recognize voices, feel pain, and the ability to bond. She has all the traits and characteristics that make a living person.
The Government Can’t Police My Morals
Van says, “People oppose abortion for a lot of different reasons. You can oppose it for moral reasons or maybe for religious reasons. Either way, you can still believe that the government does not have the right to invade that space in your life. Just because I think something is wrong does not mean I believe that everyone should be forced to my moral code.”
By this thinking, child abuse, rape, murder, drugs, and incest should all be legal. The government should have no say in what we as individuals do and we should not be forced to live by a moral standard. Laws should not exist to protect us from harm because if someone wants to hurt another person, that is his right. This thinking leads to the breakdown of civilized society.
Feminists for Choice have done nothing here but prove how wrong abortion is and how blind they are to the destruction of human life happening around them. It is interesting to note that the majority of the women quoted said they would never have an abortion. Obviously, their conscience is telling them something.
Boy is world’s first to survive being born with heart outside his body
By LUCY LAING
Last updated at 7:35 PM on 19th February 2012
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When Ryan Marquiss was born with his heart outside of his body, doctors didn’t expect him to survive.
It is an incredibly rare condition and usually babies are stillborn or die within three days.
His heart also hadn’t developed and so he only had half a heart - a combination of defects which is so rare that Ryan is the only one of his kind in the world.
Ryan Marquiss, with his sister Ainsley, has amazed doctors with his survival after being born with his heart outside of his body
Doctors advised his devastated parents to terminate the pregnancy when his mother was just 12 weeks pregnant, but they bravely refused.
And it is a gamble that has paid off, as Ryan is just about to celebrate his third birthday.
Mrs Marquiss, 34, said: ‘We wanted to let nature take its course, so we refused to have the termination.
‘We knew it would be a miracle if he survived the birth but we were unwilling to take matters into our own hands.
‘The doctors told us that no baby with Ryan’s combination of defects had ever survived, so the fact that he is here with us today, is just amazing. He really has astounded everyone.’
Doctors discovered the problem at 12 weeks into his mother’s pregnancy.
The incredibly rare defect, ectopia cordis, affects only eight in every million births and ninety percent of these are stillborn or die within three days.
And adding to that Ryan was also suffering from hypoplastic right heart syndrome, where only the left side of the heart has developed properly.
Mrs Marquiss, who lives with husband Henry, 34, and their other children Natalie, seven, and Ainsley, five, in Pennsylvania, USA, said: ‘All the odds were stacked against him. We knew that it was a miracle that he had been born alive with his heart outside his body, but then to have another life-threatening condition of only having half a heart meant that everything was against him surviving.’
Ryan after the operation, left, and right with his heart outside of his body. The condition is known as ectopia cordis
Doctors at the Children’s National Medical Centre in Washington delivered him at the end of February 2009 by caesarian, helped by a team of 30 medical professionals.
Dr Mary Donofrio, Director of the fetal heart programme at the Children’s National Medical Centre said: ‘If he survived the birth his exposed heart likely would become infected and kill him. Even if infection didn’t happen his heart had one working ventricle and he would require open heart surgery to rewire the blood flow through it.
‘I told the family right from the start that if he survived, it was a miracle.’
Mrs Marquiss said: ‘His heart was protruding out of his chest cavity. The heart was only covered by a thin membrane.
‘But he was alive and we just had to pray that he would carry on fighting.’
Ryan had to have an operation at just two weeks old to have a central shunt placed in his heart to ensure proper blood flow.
Then he underwent more than a dozen operations over the next two years. He had operations to replumb his heart so that the half a heart would do the job of a full size heart. Doctors also put tissue expanders under his skin to produce more skin so they could use it to cover his exposed heart.
Mrs Marquiss said: ‘He has done amazingly well. He has been so brave throughout it, and his sisters have kept him going too. They have been to see him in hospital and made recordings of themselves at home, so Ryan could hear them.
‘He just kept on fighting. He refused to die, and he kept on proving everyone wrong.
‘He will need some sort of chest protection operation in the future but it may be overcome by just wearing some sort of protective padding when he plays sport. He won’t be a competition athlete, but we are hoping he can run around on the playground and climb trees like any other child.’
Ryan’s case has now been reported in a medical journal. Doctors believe that his survival offers hope for other babies with serious heart defects.
In the future he may require a heart transplant, but at the moment, he is progressing well.
Mrs Marquiss said: ‘He really is a medical miracle. When I look at him running around the playground and playing on the climbing wall, I praise God. Every day with Ryan is one we were told we wouldn’t have. So we cherish each moment.’
Follow Ryan’s progress at: http://www.marquissclan.blogspot.com
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Prenatal testing should be used to help make a plan to help babies who have problems,not as a means to tell the parents to terminate. I am so glad more and more parents are refusing to give up when doctors say to end the pregnancy - just take a look at this happy family as proof that doctors don’t know everything.
- Jennifer, Chandler, AZ, 21/2/2012 05:28
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OK I’m American but I’m going to type it anyway jolly good well done.
- Robert Wood, Freehold, NJ USA, 20/2/2012 23:13
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-"I’m glad for this lovely family, but I’m concerned about what will happen in future especially as he may require a heart transplant. Am I right to say his parents were a bit selfish? The ethical question is: is it right to allow this to your child knowing he might not survive, or that if he does, faces a lifetime of care especially if his parents have no problem with fertility. - Pumpin, Birmingham, England, 19/2/2012 12:58” So if you or someone you love dearly develops a disease that will cause you/them a lifetime of problems and will require constant healthcare, are you ok with someone else deciding to terminate your or you loved one’s life for the cost/inconvenience of it all? Just curious as to your level of selfishness when it it comes to your your own life.
- JoeBobHankey, Dallas, Texas, 20/2/2012 16:45
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May their God bless and keep them. Such a brave little man. Best wishes for a Long, Healthy and Happy future:-)
- Tomlinson, Manchester, 20/2/2012 16:02
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Lovely story and I love to see kids smile like he is 
- Sally, Derby, 20/2/2012 13:46
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What a beautiful article - proof to never give up hope, no matter what the odds! His parents are amazing to have had the strength and conviction to go against medical advice. Their happiness is well deserved.
- CG, London, 20/2/2012 13:05
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We doom our own species with stuff like this. Genetics that can’t survive shouldn’t survive. Is it harsh - yes, but welcome to the world. Don’t get me wrong, I’m happy for the family that he survived and it shows how much surgeons are able to do now, but in the long run, all it will do is make this defect more likely to happen, and more kids will have to survive with only half a heart.
- James, London, 20/2/2012 11:48
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GOD BLESSED HIM.. WHAT A CUTE LITTLE GUY ))
- Tina, Beirut, Lebanon, 20/2/2012 10:26
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Awww… the boy is so cute! Great story. Oh, and daddy looks like Mat Damon.
- tate, here, 20/2/2012 06:27
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I’m also a parent of children who had life-threatening beginnings, so I admire this family’s strength and perserverance for what they went through. And the little guy is simply amazing! Beautiful story…
- jen, toronto, canada, 20/2/2012 05:25
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Judge grants preliminary injunction as case continues
By Tom Wilemon
| The Tennessean
U.S. District Judge William Haynes granted a preliminary injunction Thursday to halt the state’s decision to stop funding Planned Parenthood of Middle and East Tennessee.
The organization had used the state money to test for sexually transmitted diseases and to run infection prevention programs. Haynes issued the order after hearing oral arguments in Memphis federal court.
“This ruling is a victory for the thousands...who rely on Planned Parenthood for HIV and STD testing and prevention counseling,” said Jeff Teague, president of Planned Parenthood.
The organization accused the state of defunding its STD programs because of political motivations related to the fact that Planned Parenthood also provides abortions.
State officials could not be reached Thursday for comment.
